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Byzantine ArchitectureByzantine Architecture

Byzantine Period

• Lasts from 500 – 1453AD in the Eastern Christian world• Constantine founded a new Roman capitol at Byzantium in

330AD and called it Constantinople. It is now called Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey.

• When Rome fell to the Barbarians in 476AD, Constantinople became the center of the surviving portion of the Roman Empire until it was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453AD.

• We will compare three buildings in this time period to see what makes the style Byzantine: San Vitale in Ravenna, the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, and San Marco in Venice, Itay.

San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

526-547 AD

Emperor Justinian and his retinue

Empress Theodora and her attendants

Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey532-537AD

Isodorus of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles

Hagia Sofia, Istanbul (Constantinople)

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San Marco, Venice, Italy

1063 – 1085 AD Built 829, burned 976, and then rebuilt 1063